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If anybody in here remembers the classic infinity engine games such as Baldurs Gate, Planescape Tournament, or Icewind Dale series I have good news. They are all available to play for free natively on Mac OS X! (practically any other platform too)

You still need the original data discs (either windows or old mac versions) to install the game data for playing.

yes, the mac package distribution is quite new. seems there are some mac build bugs. The gemrb project itself is only version 0.7 so there is quite a ways to go, but development appears to be progressing rapidly.

Its completely open source so feel free to submit patches for the mac build!

Regarding the location of files. it installs using a package so you can examine before you install where the files will go or view the receipt after to see what it installed where.

There doesnt appear to be a wiki page for the mac specific install like there is for iOS, but it is a wiki so we can add one

macrumors newbie

The BG series does seem to be most complete (no real problems for me playing BG2)

Looking at the release builds on sourceforge and looking at the git history for the project reveals that there has been no oficial release for mac and that this is currently under active development. in fact it looks like the mac build didnt exist at all until 3 days ago!

I expect that when they release their next version these few mac specific issues will be worked out (remember they only have incremental/nightly builds for mac available and no mac release builds at all)

I'm watching this project closely and will keep you updated as things progress.

EDIT: i lied mac package has been available since late last year (2011-12-27) but only as beta

Yeah, since most mac users aren't really savvy with the terminal it's quite an disadvantage.

I'm looking forward to see this project expand, and will have a eye on it, and I'm sure I'll have much fun with it!
I still have to finish IWD2 and PST, and using GemRB seems like a better solution than wine, when they figure out the bugs

macrumors newbie

hearing about BGEE reminded me that GemRB for mac finally has some GUI errors that will help people get this running. apparently there is even more GUI elements in the works (preferences/configuration interface)

unfortunately it looks like a recent update to the graphics rendering has made the mac version have greenish sprites unless you run in 16 bit mode. Hopefully, they will fix this problem soon.

macrumors newbie

Would one of you that has GemRB up and running be willing to paste your config file here to help those of us that are still having problems? I have been able to get GemRB up and running on iOS and Linux but geting things running under OS X seems to be much more of a challenge!

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